I am running Ubuntu 14.04, and I want to run multiple griffin powermate knobs: https://store.griffintechnology.com/powermate. I want to map them to different keys other than audio control. I want to ...

I have an embedded Qt application crosscompiled that runs on BeagleBone Black. It works Ok, but one thing- It doesnt accept keyboard input if i wont run in directly on BeagleBone Black preceeding with ...

I have a program that runs from the command line. As soon as it runs, it asks for a text value and expects the return key to be pressed after that.
Is that possible to create a bash script that runs ...

I have a script that automatically sets up an emailing server based off what I enter for the following
echo "Please enter your main domain: (Ex.: website.com)"
read DOMINIO
if [ $DOMINIO = "" ]; then
...

I want to intercept the raw events from the keyboard (or the mouse, eventually). I tried to use the /dev/input/[...] files, they are very practical and I can read the events of any key even caps lock ...

I've been tooling around w/ this input reader lately. Currently it only prints a report to stdout for each key pressed while it runs, but I would like to graduate it to a higher purpose sooner than ...

I already managed to map the input of a joystick to keyboard inputs by writing a file in my xorg.conf.d/ directory (the file is named 51-joystick.conf).
Now I would like to map the inputs of a second ...

I'm playing with the Linux terminal and I have to do a exercise which states that I have to find inside a file for any line that contains at least an a, b and c, it doesn't matter it the lane has 2 a, ...

I need a script, that will run in terminal (under X11), and wait for a keyboard shortcut (happening anywhere in the desktop environment), once that shortcut (or key press sequence) happens, it will ...

I used to have a custom .XCompose, I removed it to possibly eliminate the cause. Unfortunately, the problem persists - I can't create an accented Cyrillic character, such as the ones here [1]. Simply ...

I've been given a mess of applications that all touch various common files and data sources. (Retail IT environment so lots of generic sources of data that gets sliced and diced into various ways and ...

I set my displays to sleep with xset dpms force off after locking the screen with kscreenlock. This is great, the displays wake up when the mouse is moved (by me, air, the cat). I'd like to set it in ...

When entering long queries into the command-line psql, my terminal[1] is not wrapping the input line correctly. Additional charactes wrap back to the left of the screen, but on the same line as the ...

I am writing a bash script to perform some analysis using the program ROOT. I want to run some initial command to load the result of the analysis, then continue using ROOT interactively.
The analysis ...

I have a bash script that is reading quite a bit of data /dev/random. I need the user to type randomly to seed the random daemon. However once the script completes everything typed will get dumped to ...

I'm fairly new to OpenWRT and Linux in general so please bare with me.
I'm trying to print the button presses from a playstation gamepad to the console on an Arduino Yun which has OpenWRT. I've used ...

I'm trying to read from a second keyboard whose inputs can be read from /dev/inputs/eventX, but I get rubbish and not the character expected.
I'm accessing my target by using Putty. I can connect to ...

I need to record every keystroke and store in a file in the user directory ~, when using my account, I am not sudoer and I cannot install programs (like logKeys) in any way. How could I do so using ...

I'm trying to have my Raspberry Pi function as a GUIless music player. I've got Arch Linux installed, and use it through ssh. I've got also an IR receiver dongle, and I'm planning to use it to control ...

An external USB keypad I'd like to use gets recognised as a USB HID device, but it is not functional when Linux is booted. It does work when plugged into a Windows desktop and it does work while in ...